The New York Times Gets Slammed For Blowing Off A Huge WikiLeaks Hearing

The New York York Times
"missed the boat" by not covering the first public testimony
of Bradley Manning on Friday, according to
the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan.

Over the past few days, a court has heard testimony
about harsh
treatment endured by the 24-year-old Army
private-turned-whistleblower after he allegedly disclosed the
largest trove of government secrets since the Pentagon Papers, to
the website WikiLeaks.

He says he spent two months in a “cage” inside a dark tent in Kuwait and
then nine months in 23-hours-a-day solitary confinement at a
Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Virginia. The defense has called
for
charges to be dropped over Manning's treatment.